Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:Get the human site (Score 1) 479

http://gethuman.com/ will often give you a decent number to get to an actual human in a lot of organizations.

Of course, gethuman.com works better if you have a functioning internet connection. Best to look up the critical numbers in advance and put them in your offline-accessible paper contact list.

Comment Doing business (Score 1) 1

And, of course, there was a separate issue of how the court even had jurisdiction over Google, seeing as it does not have any operations, staff or servers in British Columbia.

It's pretty clear that Google is doing business there, or there would be no issue to begin with. Yes, Virginia, advertising is doing business. But then, so is selling mobile phones, tablets, chromebooks, etc., and the one-and-zero stuff that makes them go. This is not dependent on the question of who the frontline salesbot works for.

Comment Re:I know a lot of this is cutting edge... (Score 2) 41

... If you know the speed and the density of the atmosphere you're going to deploy it in ...

Nontrivial. Requires the ability to forecast high altitude Martian weather years in advance. So far, we can barely manage a few days in advance for Earth weather. Then there's that minor detail of wanting some flexibility to adjust the atmospheric attack angle in case the arrival date isn't quite what was originally intended. No it isn't rocket science. It's way harder.

Comment Re:This should be a major embarrassment (Score 1) 72

Damn amateurs... Any decent coder would have made sure there's no buffer overflow that would jam system... I'm little surprised they dint catch CSV file overflow in testing phase in lab..

Because no pro coder has ever overflowed a buffer. Hell, MS built a business model on shipping defective code.

Slashdot Top Deals

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach

Working...